SPORTS REPORTERS ARE MORE RESPONSIBLE THAN WAR REPORTERS

In a brilliant summary refuting the doom & gloom of lame-stream media reporting of national opinion polling after the President's speech, the indispensable Jules Crittenden points out that although:

• 29% said the president does have a "clear plan" for handling the situation in Iraq, vs. 25% who said that before the speech.

• 69% said the president does not have a "clear plan," vs. 72% who said that before the speech

with respect to the disloyal opposition:

• 21% said Democrats in Congress have a "clear plan" for Iraq, vs. 25% who said that before the speech.

• 75% said Democrats in Congress do not have a "clear plan" for Iraq, vs. 66% who said that before the speech

So the President is still doing better in the polls than the Democrats in Congress.

Even more interesting is Crittenden's link to a ChicagoBoyz post by James McCormick, who notes that:

Part of the “good guys” winning requires that the media play it straight. They can read between the lines all they want. They can dream up whatever schemes, plans, and strategies they think will prevail. They can interpret the slightest facial twitch or player limp in whatever way they want. But they cannot, must not, seek to betray confidences that would benefit the opposing team. A reporter who consistently attempted to sabotage the local team’s game plans would quickly be looking for work in a different discipline. Fans have too much invested in their teams to let that kind of behaviour continue.

Thus my broader view for the day — America will get the MSM it wants when America takes its national security as seriously as its football.

Football fans are evidently more invested in their favorite teams than we Americans are invested in our own Country, and in our own freedoms. McCormick closes his insightful essay with this:

Thank goodness the media in the Pats’ world are actually required to love football more than themselves. Football fans can still dictate how the game is played. maybe America needs a few more fans.

Well I for one am a fan of America. I am not ashamed to be a fan of America, and I am rooting for America to win, and win big. Whatever it takes.

Americans should expect the same professionalism in reporting of a war fought for and by the Country they love that they demand in reporting of the national sports they love.